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<blockquote data-quote="GraceK" data-source="post: 313493" data-attributes="member: 47233"><p>I've been thinking about the flu jab too. I've never had one ever.</p><p></p><p>I suffered from regular chest infections when I was young, then I stopped having them and didn't have a cold or cough for about 15 years. Then 3 years ago I was working in a children's hospital and we had a Swine Flu outbreak and two of the secretaries sitting a few feet away from me came down with it and we heard another person actually died. Then I came down with what I thought was a bad chest infection and developed breathing problems but I wasn't diagnosed with Swine Flu. But I was really laid low with it and each year I've had the same thing. The last bout was in January this year and my God I really thought I was on my last legs with it. Felt like my lungs were filling up with fluid. It was really scary, and even more so because when it began I went to see the Practice Nurse who said she couldn't hear anything and told me I didn't need antibiotics and I should suck a lozenge!!!</p><p></p><p>Three days after that I was gasping in the ambulance and thought I was pegging out. Also the way my immune system is behaving, I don't really want to go back to working in a hospital. I have to handle a lot of case notes and they've been here there and everywhere, including being stored on the floor in the offices as many Medical Secretariats just don't have the space or adequate storage equipment. I've complained God knows how many times about that because I think it's disgusting putting case notes on the floor where people are constantly walking in outdoor shoes. Those casenotes are transported all over the hospitals, to wards, theatres, clinics, they're placed on beds and handled by so many people. They wonder where MRSA and CDif come from yet the hygiene in a lot of the medical offices would turn your hair grey! I've complained, I've even written to the Health Secretary believe it or not - but we're just basically ignored and the situation never changes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GraceK, post: 313493, member: 47233"] I've been thinking about the flu jab too. I've never had one ever. I suffered from regular chest infections when I was young, then I stopped having them and didn't have a cold or cough for about 15 years. Then 3 years ago I was working in a children's hospital and we had a Swine Flu outbreak and two of the secretaries sitting a few feet away from me came down with it and we heard another person actually died. Then I came down with what I thought was a bad chest infection and developed breathing problems but I wasn't diagnosed with Swine Flu. But I was really laid low with it and each year I've had the same thing. The last bout was in January this year and my God I really thought I was on my last legs with it. Felt like my lungs were filling up with fluid. It was really scary, and even more so because when it began I went to see the Practice Nurse who said she couldn't hear anything and told me I didn't need antibiotics and I should suck a lozenge!!! Three days after that I was gasping in the ambulance and thought I was pegging out. Also the way my immune system is behaving, I don't really want to go back to working in a hospital. I have to handle a lot of case notes and they've been here there and everywhere, including being stored on the floor in the offices as many Medical Secretariats just don't have the space or adequate storage equipment. I've complained God knows how many times about that because I think it's disgusting putting case notes on the floor where people are constantly walking in outdoor shoes. Those casenotes are transported all over the hospitals, to wards, theatres, clinics, they're placed on beds and handled by so many people. They wonder where MRSA and CDif come from yet the hygiene in a lot of the medical offices would turn your hair grey! I've complained, I've even written to the Health Secretary believe it or not - but we're just basically ignored and the situation never changes. [/QUOTE]
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